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by mirimir 6y ago
Huh. So when you wrote that comment, was TFA's URL a BBC link?
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by mirimir 6y ago
I've always kinda "known" that, in a joking way. And never bothered to actually check. So thanks :)
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by mirimir 6y ago
That seems kinda obvious for coastal California. But why NYC?
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by mirimir 6y ago
Hey, it's great to see something from a professional !!! A dear friend is dying of pancreatic cancer. And one of the key reasons that she's still alive was getting thrombosis under control. Initially with IV heparin, and now with
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by mirimir 6y ago
Fair enough. I was mostly talking about professional staff, such as engineers, and some trades. Most traditionally, for example, lawyers and plumbers.
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by mirimir 6y ago
I asked "How is that?" because relying on worker-reported hours is no less consistent with the profit motive than are current standards for salaried employees. Employers can still calculate "profit per worker hour". And
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by mirimir 6y ago
How is that?
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by mirimir 6y ago
I consider thinking to be "work". You say that salaried people aren't paid by the hour, but that's arguably a fiction. There's always a defined work day. Some employees end up "working" for inordinate amou
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by mirimir 6y ago
There's a simple solution. Just give up on the idea that we can expect people to work many hours ~continuously, on a regular basis. Sure, there must be times when ~everyone is available to talk. But otherwise, just let people work when
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by mirimir 6y ago
That's a hilarious title :) I can't imagine how anyone (without a death wish) would be OK now in an open-plan office. We'll know more this fall, but COVID-19 may be around indefinitely. And even if it peters out, another coro
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by mirimir 6y ago
Indeed. And with an alpine butterfly loop, you have basically tackle. So it's great for tying stuff, because tightening doesn't require retying.
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by mirimir 6y ago
> So that they could listen to YOU through the said toaster, because whatever shit you said near the toaster is obviously very important to the Chinese. Sure. But maybe they'd care a lot about some tiny percentage of toaster talkers
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by mirimir 6y ago
It sounds a lot like the jackpot, as William Gibson calls it in Peripheral and Agency .
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by mirimir 6y ago
Huh. Me, I've always used soft iron twisted wire.
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by mirimir 6y ago
It's amusing that TFA never mentions Sci-Hub, [0] which arguably renders it all moot. 0) https://sci-hub.now.sh/
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by mirimir 6y ago
Thanks, I'll look into it. It seems like a subtle distinction. That is, "cooperat[ing] with other compromised nodes" seems like a flavor of malicious activity. I get that the Tor Project has banned relays for numerous reasons
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by mirimir 6y ago
Yeah, I guess. I suspect that authorities are planning ahead. As we get further into the jackpot (see Gibson's Peripheral and Agency ) there'll be more and more disorder and chaos. And so there'll be a need for more survei
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by mirimir 6y ago
If there's no substantial competition, it's a monopoly. Intentionality isn't that important. It's about market power.
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by mirimir 6y ago
> You can host your video anywhere you like, but you get the most eyeballs and revenue from YouTube, and that's based on user preference and not on some nefarious activity on their part. Maybe not "nefarious" exactly. But
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by mirimir 6y ago
Sure, but reputable (from a privacy sense, anyway) VPN providers don't even retain any logs. Some providers just run everything in RAM, so no data ever touches disk. And there may not even be a disk. And then you can route through To
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by mirimir 6y ago
GallowBoob tells a sad story, but the fact remains that they and a few others had far too much power. They were arguably also spread far too thin. So altogether, I'm not sad to see them go. Also, their behavior deleting posts and banni
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by mirimir 6y ago
Exactly. And TFA jumps to conclusions about speeding and reckless driving with only some quoted speculation. FWIW, your speculations make more sense to me. Your speculation about "fatalities [being] higher in areas where there are larg
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by mirimir 6y ago
As I understand it, there's a slowly increasing supply of Loki, a private cryptocurrency. Basically, service nodes earn Loki for caching messages, and relaying traffic. I gather that's analogous to mining in Bitcoin etc. Creating
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by mirimir 6y ago
Can one use Signal via Tor? If so, a URL would be useful. But one can use Session (a fork of Signal) over Lokinet (an onion routing network, which is similar to Tor). Even the updated version of Signal merely relays stuff through a proxy. T
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by mirimir 6y ago
The best solution is running the VPN client in your router. That way, your machine can't see its ISP-assigned public IP address. If you're using a workspace VM, you can run the VPN client in a pfSense VM, which is functionally equ
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by mirimir 6y ago
Please ELI5 why it doesn't happen for www.ebay.com using Firefox in Debian. I see no websocket connections to localhost in Network Monitor or iftop.
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by mirimir 6y ago
I get that. But I still think that there's a distinction between "not feel strongly" and "be desperate".
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by mirimir 6y ago
> This is a good reminder that sometimes the plaintiff in a major decision like this often doesn’t have the strongest ideological link to the issue at hand ... That's a misreading of TFA. It's not that she ever opposed abortion
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by mirimir 6y ago
Haven't they also cost lives from hindered access to medical care for stuff unrelated to Covid-19?
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by mirimir 6y ago
My first wife's Scottish ancestors came from Ireland.

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